Academic fraud in the training of scientific personnel in Kazakhstan: the analysis of some legal remedies and their implementation

Introduction: the process of training scientific personnel is an area subject to the radical reform. Initially, the established procedures were aimed at preserving the traditions and unified approach in the post-Soviet states. However, when gaining independence, any state seeks to create a national model of its own development of science and technology, while trying to perceive and analyze not only the existing experience, but also referring to the experience of other states, adapting the scientific activities to the new integration processes. The Republic of Kazakhstan was no exception. The training of scientific personnel through the master’s and doctoral programs and the rapid development of information technologies required a different approach to introduction, demonstration of research results, and assessment of the demand for research. Clearly, the issue of preventing plagiarism and instilling a legal culture of non-acceptance of any forms of illegal borrowing in the training of scientific personnel in the educational institutions has come to the fore in this process. The purpose of this article is to analyze some legal remedies of regulating the process of countering the facts of academic fraud and their practical implementation in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Methods: to conduct an objective study, the author used the methods of analyzing legal norms, comparing the fixed legal norms and their implementation, systematizing them in the study area, and modeling some forms of academic fraud. Conclusions: based on the results of the analysis, the conclusions are drawn about the current state of implementation of the legal norms in the above-mentioned area and some recommendations are proposed to prevent the facts of academic fraud in higher education.